The national Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiohmole has poked fun at Dr. Bukola Saraki, the Senate President over his inability to deliver his party during the Saturday’s bye-election in Kwara State.
Oshiomhole said despite being the national leader of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Director-General of Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation, Saraki could not win Ekiti/Irepodun/Isin/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency bye-election held across the four councils of the state.
Reacting to the APC’s victory in the election, he said the Senate President would be “buried politically” during the February 2019 general elections.
Over the period, the duo have constantly been on one another’s jugular with Oshiohmole always calling on the Senate President to resign or be impeached while Saraki would call on APC National Chairman to resign on allegations of corruption levelled against by some partymen after the concluded APC primaries.
Speaking on Tuesday in Abuja, the APC chairman said: “They went on to say that Oshiomhole should vacate office, that I have no moral right to morality.
“Now in his own case, the people of Kwara wouldn’t give him the honour of resigning. They are going to politically bury him come February next year and he has seen the first warning signal.
“They dug the first one-metre grave, then come February next year, senator Saraki will be retired by the great people of Kwara state whom he has mismanaged their political and economic life over the years.”
“Here is a native doctor who busy going to another state but unable to heal is own people in his own state. That defeat in Kwara is more outstanding,” Oshiomhole said.
According to Oshiomhole, since the inception of the national working committee of the APC which he heads, the party has not lost any major election.
He said: “We reviewed the recent elections and we are proud to be able to say that since the new national working committee was elected on the 24th of June 2018, since I came on board along with my brothers and sisters of NWC, we are proud that we have not lost any major election.
“We have done rerun election in Katsina and we have won twice. We did another one Saturday and we won again. We had a rerun in Bauchi for senate, we won.
“But even more outstanding for me and APC is the humiliating defeat that Senator Bukola Saraki suffered in the hands of Kwara people who are determined to dismantle his failed attempt to install his own variants of a political culture in which he is the only constant decimal.”
Meanwhile, the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC has warned that aggrieved members of the party will face disciplinary action if they refuse to withdraw cases against it in court.
The NWC gave the warning in a statement issued by Lanre Onilu, the APC national publicity secretary.
“The NWC has frowned at the actions of some party members who have resorted to litigation as a way of addressing their perceived grievances and disputation without exhausting the party’s dispute resolution mechanism,” the statement read.
“This growing trend is viewed by the party as a manifest indiscipline. The action, it should be noted, is considered as anti-party as it goes against our party’s constitution.
“The party intends to activate constitutional provisions to penalise such members as their action is capable of undermining the party and hurt its interest.
“We hereby strongly advise such members to withdraw all court cases, while approaching the appropriate party organs with a view to resolving any outstanding disputes.
“In addition to this, aggrieved members are urged to take full advantage of the reconciliation committees the party has just put in place.”
Onilu further advised disgruntled members of the party to take the warning seriously if not, they would be met with the stipulated disciplinary actions.
